Once I got interested in Arabic Christian Literature, I quickly found that the only book of use was Georg Graf’s 5 volume Geschichte der arabischen christlichen Literatur, published 50 years ago by the Vatican library. I was able to buy volumes 2-5 online, but not volume 1. The first two volumes deal with literature up […]
I collect joke books. Most evenings I get home, tired, and I’m not really in the mood to read something heavy. Instead I pick up a joke book, open it anywhere, read a few lines and always find something to make me smile.
Anyone who has bought joke books will be familiar with the way that […]
An article in the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog points up a find of another stray page from British Library Additional 12150, which dates from 411 AD.
The manuscript was bought from the Monastery of the Syrians (Deir al-Suryani) (St. Mary Deipara) in the Nitrian desert by Archdeacon Henry Tattam in the 1840’s, but his […]
I was fascinated to discover today that a reasonable number of reprints of Syriac texts are for sale at reasonable prices online at Lulu.com. These can be rather cheaper than reprints from Gorgias press, for instance. Quality is unknown, tho. Quite a number of Alphone Mingana’s works are there. Search for ‘Assyrian’ or ‘Syriac’.
Postscript (12/1/8). […]
People may recall that I’m working on a Garshuni text preserved in Mingana Syr. 142, and that I got a PDF of some microfiche printouts a while back, which I sent to a translator.
This was a bit hard to read, but I found that the Mingana (well, Birmingham university special collections) would allow me to go and […]
Fr. Dale A. Johnson has made freely available online a Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts of the library of the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It also describes his experiences in trying to gain access!
Glasnost is spreading through UK manuscripts collections! First the National Archives; now the Mingana!
I wrote over the weekend to the Mingana collection of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts at Birmingham university. Without much hope, I asked if I could bring my own digital camera; if not, what would they charge me for some images? Today I […]
I would like to point out another online resource for ancient texts that I have found; it is another native Greek site. The site is called Παρακάλυψις, and its texts are in Unicode. Some are in PDF format; most are not.
The look of the site is crisp and clean, and navigation is simple. The text […]
In Syriac studies, even a beginner will find himself consulting lists of manuscripts, as so much has never been published. William Wright’s Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum (1870) remains a fundamental reference. From the Yahoo Hugoye-list I find that this is now online at archive.org: vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3.
The enormous […]
Syriacologist Steven Ring tells me that he has asked the Vatican Library whether he needs their permission to quote from their manuscripts, or produce an edition of a text contained in one. They responded:
We are pleased to inform you that you don’t need permission from the Vatican Library to quote a BAV siriac ms. on […]
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